But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then, at his coming, those who belong to him.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

"Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away; and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or hypocrisy.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."